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From Pressburger and Powell, "A Matter of Life and Death":

Posted by tinear on February 27, 2009 at 16:29:22:
David Niven stars as the wounded pilot forced to bail out after the Germans shot up his plane... but he had no parachute!
He awakens on a beach, scarcely believing his survival. Immediately before he bailed, as his plane became engulfed in flames, he asked the young woman station operator to say goodbye to his parents-- and he romanced her, expressing sorrow that he'd never meet the woman behind the beautiful voice.
Soon after his miraculous survival, he does meet her, they fall in love. At this point, we are shown that indeed he perished but the "collector" from heaven was tardy. Niven's character argues that it is unfair for him to be taken because he has fallen in love and the situation has changed.
With such a charming pretense, we enter a make-believe world, brilliantly imagined, created, and filmed. The only film with which to compare it is Cocteau's very different but equally delightful and fantastic, "Orpheus."
This film also is known by the title of, "Stairway to Heaven."
By any title, it is an intelligent, amusing, and brilliant commentary not just upon love, but life.
How rare to see such wisdom, such high feelings shamelessly put forth!